My holiday to China began early in the morning when my friend Tony picked me up from my home in Fareham. He took me to Gatwick Airport for an Air China flight to Beijing.
Luckily, people were already at the Air China check-in desk, and I could check in. I was soon in the 'Servisair' lounge, where I met my travelling companions and tour rep for the holiday. Everyone seemed very friendly, and after a bacon roll, several Danish pastries and some orange juice, I then forced myself to have a couple of beers.
We all walked around to the departure gate and boarded the plane in good time, only to be delayed for some unknown reason for about 40 minutes. After taking off, we were served lunch, which was actually quite lovely for airline food. A big thumbs up to Air China. After watching a couple of films and then figuring out why I only had two films on my screen, I managed to get all the other channels working and settled in for the overnight flight to Beijing.
Air China.
Air China is the flagship airline of the People's Republic of China and one of the three mainland Chinese airlines, the others being China Southern Airlines and China Eastern Airlines.
Air China's headquarters are in Beijing, and its flight operations are based primarily at the Beijing Capital International Airport.